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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

— Wayne Rooney

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I play, I'm so in the moment that I can't really remember what happened afterwards. It's a rare experience for a thinking person like me.

— Lykke Li

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.

— Joshua Foer

I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.

— Charlie Kaufman

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

— Natasha Trethewey

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

— Josh Billings

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

— Craig Venter

I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.

— Josh Hartnett

I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.

— Alexandra Daddario

Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don't have too much information. You can Google something, and it's in your face, pow! You don't have time to dream any more about it.

— Dries van Noten

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

— Salman Rushdie

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